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by Shakahs 623 days ago
So now the government needs to compel a corporation to hand over some data, because they are no longer able to read it straight off the wire like they could before. That sounds like a significant improvement to privacy.
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People trafficking drugs into Australia were using a secure, encrypted messaging service developed by a private third party provider.

They eventually found out that the third party provider was in fact the Australian Federal Police, reading all their messages in clear and in real time.

The government only needs to compel a corporation if that corporation has an adversarial relationship with them.

We have tried the centralized model pushed by Cloudflare before, it was called the Minitel.

Sounds like an interesting story. Do you have a link to a summary?